Cuff-button



(No Model.)

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O'UFF BUTTON.

No. 351,579. Patented Oct. 26, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC COOK, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,579, dated October 26, 1886.

Application filed August 10. 1886. Serial No. 210,554. (No model.)

, T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIo 000K, a citizen of' the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Impuncture the cuff and are objectionable.

The invention consists in the construction of a cuff-button hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which I Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cuff-button made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a bottom plan view thereof; Fig; 3, a sec tionalview on the line a: x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a sectional view on' the line y y of Fig. 2.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, where the numeral lindicates the buttonhead having a rigidly-attached post or shank, 2, provided at its inner end with a flange, 3, constituting a shoe, which is adapted to enter the button-holes of a cuff to engage the shoe and post or shank therewith. The inside of the button-head is flush, or approximately so, and to it is rigidly attached one end of a circular pin, 4:, which extends around the buttonhead and the post or shank and lies in a plane parallel, or substantially so, with the inside of 0 the button-head. The free end of the pin is pointed, and when the shoe and post or shank are engaged with the button-holes of the cuff the entire button can be rotated and the circular pin caused to penetrate, and thereby engage with a part of the sleeve of a ladys dress or other garment. This connects the sleeve with the button-head and prevents the cuff from slipping into or out of the sleeve, while at the same time'the cuff is not punctured by pin-holes, as where a pin is used to pass through thesleeve and enter the cuff.

r The post or shank of the button is circular in cross-section to admit of its being easily rotated in the button-holes of the cuff; but any other form in cross-section may be adopted which will admit of the button-head being rotated;

The construction and arrangement of the circular pin concealsit from view and provides a desirable and efficient cuff-button for the purpose stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is l. A cuffbutton consisting of a post or shank having at one end a shoe and at the other end a button-head having a circular pin attached at one end to the inside thereof, and extending around the same in a plane parallel, or substantially so, with the inside of the button-head, substantially as described.

2. A cuff-button having the inner side ofi ts head provided with an attached circular pin extending around said button-head, and by the rotation of the latter caused to penetrate and engage the sleeve of a dress or other garment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIG COOK.

Witnesses:

F. KIROHNER, Gno. MONTGOMERY. 

